Mr. Caine.12
Mr. Ellis
Mr.
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Hr. E. J. Harding.
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Sir C. Strachey,
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Sir G. Grindle.
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Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Lord Lovat.
Mr. Amery,
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HONG KONG
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League of Nations have
received through the United States
Customs a document purporting to be
the annual report of the Hong Kong
Superintendent of Imports and Exports
for 1926. This contains references
Gov.
to the French Government the tone
Copy Co M. Perriness/
with chu aft.
of which,while unobjectional in a
confidential departmental reports
very unsuitable in a published
document. For example under the
heading "Yunnan Opium via Tonking"
a proposal said to have been made to
the Government of Indo-China to allow
Yunnan opium to pass through
Tonking
is reported and following is extract:
"Negotiations were carried on
"apparently through certain French
"merchants, and an extra transit fee